Emma P. Holter, a University Fellow and second-year PhD Art History student, will deliver a paper "Color Wars: Woad, Indigo, and the Emergence of Venetian Blue Paper" at the 2023 SECAC conference taking place in Richmond, Virginia. Her paper, part of the panel "Methodology and Pedagogy: The Art of Renaissance and Early Modern Italy," examines the advent of blue drawing paper in fifteenth-century Venice through an eco-critical lens, and explores the material's entanglement with the local textile dyeing industry and the importation of foreign dyestuffs.